The present disclosure includes, responsive to a request from a user device, performing a security check based on policy associated with the user device, wherein the policy includes setting related to content filtering and security; responsive to the security check, performing one of: directly allowing the request to the Internet based on the security check determining the request is allowed by the settings; directly blocking the request based on the security check determining the request is disallowed by the settings; and forwarding the request to a system for inline inspection based on the security check determining the request includes suspicious content, wherein responsive to the inline inspection, the request is one of allowed and blocked.
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2. The system of claim 1, wherein the inline inspection performs a plurality of malicious Uniform Resource Locator (URL) filtering, antivirus/antispyware detection, deep content inspection, advanced persistent threat protection/sandboxing, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in an in-line manner.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the suspicious content is based on a domain known to contain malicious content based on Uniform Resource Locator (URL) categories.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein the policy includes any of content filtering which provides the policy for allowing or blocking the request at the DNS server, threat security which denotes a suspicious site for the request or an unknown site for the request and invokes the inline inspection, Safe Search on an application on the user device which enforces all searches on the user device with a safe search setting, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) inspection with the exception of sites in Healthcare, Finance, and Banking categories, and black and white listing of sites which exempts or blocks sites for the request based on user provisioning.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein redirecting the request to the inline inspection system from the DNS server is performed based on the policy requiring inline functionality based on DNS security check results.
11. The cloud-based security method of claim 10, wherein the inline inspection performs a plurality of malicious Uniform Resource Locator (URL) filtering, antivirus/antispyware detection, deep content inspection, advanced persistent threat protection/sandboxing, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in an in-line manner.
13. The cloud-based security method of claim 10, wherein the suspicious content is based on a domain known to contain malicious content based on Uniform Resource Locator (URL) categories.
16. The cloud-based security method of claim 10, wherein the policy includes any of content filtering which provides the policy for allowing or blocking the request at the DNS server, threat security which denotes a suspicious site for the request or an unknown site for the request and invokes the inline inspection, Safe Search on an application on the user device which enforces all searches on the user device with a safe search setting, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) inspection with the exception of sites in Healthcare, Finance, and Banking categories, and black and white listing of sites which exempts or blocks sites for the request based on user provisioning.
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